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An Evans man said he confronted someone stealing yard equipment from his house Sunday afternoon.

The 35-year-old said he was inside his Roxbury Drive home at about 1:30 p.m. when he heard a noise from the carport area. The homeowner found a man loading his weedeater and chainsaw into a Lexus parked in the driveway.

An Appling woman was issued two county ordinance citations Thursday when her pit bull bit a mother and son.

A 28-year-old mother was asked Thursday evening by her son to walk him to a friend’s house because he was afraid of a dog that had previously ran at him near a residence on Jacqueline Drive in Appling.

As they returned home from the friend’s house, a black and white pit bull ran toward them, snapping and barking at the pair.

The mother tried throwing rocks at the dog to scare it away, but it chased after them.

A man that police found unconscious on a road median Tuesday died at an area hospital.

A deputy found 62-year-old Eddie Reville, laying in the center median of Jimmie Dyess Parkway at Park West Drive just after midnight. Reville was not breathing and he had abrasions on his right knee and right arm.

He was transported to Doctors Hospital, where he later died in the Intensive Care Unit, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

An Evans woman became combative early Friday after deputies pulled her vehicle over to find out if she was involved in a single-vehicle wreck.

When she was stopped by authorities, Ophelia Pantera Overton, 19, of the 770 block of Laurel Springs Court, first refused to get out of her vehicle, according to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident report.